In 1995 David Letterman was the ... three of the most popular talk show hosts have had shows that were canceled before they hit their stride. Carson, Letterman, and Stewart were given their ...

A compilation edition (priced at $14.99) includes highlights from the 1960s through Carson's emotional farewell show and his memorable ... Betty White, David Letterman and Ellen DeGeneres in ...

"Just how pissed off are you?" "The Tonight Show" had just gone to Jay Leno. Johnny Carson had long hoped his friend David Letterman would get the job -- as did Letterman. So when Letterman next ...

“Johnny kind of said to me on our first date, ‘You love comedy so much, would you like to come up and see a show that I did?’” Joanne Carson said on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in 2007.

and the late night show hosts that succeeded him, including Jay Leno and David Letterman. Some of Carson's celebrity exchanges are the stuff Internet memes are made of. In 1974, Burt Reynolds ...

Letterman finished his monologue and sat down before explaining that all of those jokes were written by Johnny Carson for David’s show, and that episode was going to essentially be a wake for ...